Students must now toss the ball to a player in another hoop (who doesn’t have a ball) in a way that allows the target player to catch the ball while remaining in their hoop. Students stay inside their hoops but the teacher takes half of the balls out of the game. Alternatively, the teacher can also have students increase the height of their toss or perform an action between the toss and the catch (e.g. The teacher can increase the difficulty of the task by providing students with a smaller or bouncier object to catch. The teacher can decrease the difficulty of the task by providing students with a larger or softer object to catch. Players attempt to toss the ball up in the air and catch it before it drops while keeping both feet inside their hoop. The teacher places hoops in the playing area in a scattered formation.Įach student is assigned a hoop, stands inside their hoop, and is then given a ball. Play continues until there are no more beanbags in any of the hoops. the catcher becomes the passer and the passer becomes the catcher). Once the catcher gets back to their cone (with or without a beanbag) the two players on that team switch roles (i.e. If the pass is not caught, the the catcher returns back to their team’s cone with their ball without a beanbag.
If the pass is caught, the catcher returns back to their team’s cone with their ball and one beanbag from the hoop they were standing in. The passer can use an overhand or underhand throw depending on which of the two skills the class is currently focusing on. The passer makes a pass to their catcher who attempts to catch the ball with both feet inside the hoop. The goal of the game is for teams to collect as many beanbags as possible.įor a team to collect a beanbag, one player from that team (the catcher) must move to a hoop containing at least one beanbag. That player’s partner (the passer) remains at their team’s cone with the ball. Each cone is assigned a two-player team and each team is given pinnies to wear and a ball. On each end of the playing area, the teacher places cones. The same concept can be done for underhand tossing, either having the hoops propped against the wall or laying flat.The teacher places hoops in a scattered formation in the playing area with a few beanbags in each hoop.
Of course once most hoops were down, the distance for many was great and the angles more difficult, but they still had a blast trying to make that tough throw. They retrieved the balls, then placed them back on spots and then galloped when the music starting playing. All hoops that had a ball go threw were considered "burst", and the kids would then lay them down.
I then talked out the cues and then they threw the ball. I had them skip (changed styles after each attempt) around until the music stopped and then they went to a spot once the music stopped, and they picked up the ball and posed in the proper throwing style. I added practicing locomotor skills to the activity. I placed the same amount of polyspots with yarn balls/foam tennis balls on top within the perimeter, and at a reasonable throwing distance.
Here are my modifications to this nice activity.For throwing, I propped up on the wall a hula per kid around the perimeter of my gym.